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Feb 6, 2008 (newstodate): The Austrian company Meinl Airports International has announced its decision to develop an airport for the Warsaw and the Warsaw region.
A former AFB, the new airport at Sochaczew, 40km west of Warsaw will initially focus on low-cost carriers, with the first flights planned to take off by 2011.
With Warsaw Okecie Airport close to its capacity ceiling, the new airport will relieve the pressure on the current infrastructure, and Meinl expects Sochaczew Airport to handle more than two million passengers by 2012.
Meinl won the tender for privatisation of Sochaczew Airport and will take 40 percent in the new airport company, with the remaining shares held by the state and a private Polish owner.
Since 2007 Meinl has also been in talks with Poland's Bydgoscz Airport over participation in the management and financing of the airport.
In September, 2007, Meinl acquired a 100 percent stake in the Mukhino Airport in Ulan Ude, Russia, and in November, 2007, Meinl Airports International purchased 10.1 percent of the stakes in the Turkish TAV Airports Holding.
A former AFB, the new airport at Sochaczew, 40km west of Warsaw will initially focus on low-cost carriers, with the first flights planned to take off by 2011.
With Warsaw Okecie Airport close to its capacity ceiling, the new airport will relieve the pressure on the current infrastructure, and Meinl expects Sochaczew Airport to handle more than two million passengers by 2012.
Meinl won the tender for privatisation of Sochaczew Airport and will take 40 percent in the new airport company, with the remaining shares held by the state and a private Polish owner.
Since 2007 Meinl has also been in talks with Poland's Bydgoscz Airport over participation in the management and financing of the airport.
In September, 2007, Meinl acquired a 100 percent stake in the Mukhino Airport in Ulan Ude, Russia, and in November, 2007, Meinl Airports International purchased 10.1 percent of the stakes in the Turkish TAV Airports Holding.